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Two more of my favourite 60s British television shows: Danger Man (called Secret Agent Man in Canada and America) and The Saint. Danger Man starred Patrick McGoohan as John Drake, a British spy and The Saint starred Roger Moore (in his pre-James Bond days) as the inimitable Simon Templar. Both series were filmed in black and white, with later episodes of The Saint appearing in colour.
Another series I enjoyed are the John le Carré books Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People, adapted for television in 1979 and 1982 with the inimitable Sir Alec Guinness as George Smiley. Superb shows. There is also a small but striking performance by Sir Patrick Stewart, long before he became Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek.
My favourite police procedural series starring Warren Clarke as Detective Superintendant Andy Dalziel and Colin Buchanan as Detective Inspector Peter Pascoe. Set in Yorkshire, the series is based on a series of books by the late Reginald Hill and a must read for anyone who loves suspenseful police procedurals.
One of my favourite movie actors of all time is Errol Flynn. Originally from Tasmania, Flynn cultivated a mid-Atlantic accent and starred in such classics as Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Adventures of Robin Hood, a movie that to me is just about perfect. It has a superb cast, action, romance, humour, fantastic acting, intrigue, suspense and plot plus the baddies lose in the end. And of course the classic sword fight between Flynn and Basil Rathbone is masterful cinema and dramatic lighting.
The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan, was one of the most cerebral, well written and intriguing television series of all time. It was a finite 17-episode series filmed in the Welsh coastal village of Portmeirion. The buildings you see in the show actually exist in Portmeirion and were built by the eccentric Sir Clough Williams-Ellis starting in 1925. The series theme song is riveting and in the introduction Patrick McGoohan is seen driving a green and yellow Lotus Seven Series II. That alone is great. McGoohan's unnamed character is only referred to as Number 6, the logo of which I use on my Flickr home page. Some people claim, although McGoohan never confirmed it, that Number 6 was actually John Drake after he left the British Secret Service and he was imprisoned in "The Village" because of the secrets he knew.
George Orwell would have gone down in history as a middling writer had it not been for his last two novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four which place him atop the list of most influential authors of the twentieth century. The movie 1984 came out in, not surprisingly, 1984. John Hurt is excellent as Winston Smith but the movie seems a bit drudgey. However, the music by The Eurythmics is a highlight.